James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and the Rise of the American Culture
Autor: | Rene Hoffmann |
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EAN: | 9783638103008 |
eBook Format: | PDF/ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 25.10.2001 |
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Schlagworte: | James Fenimore Cooper captivity narrative frontier |
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Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department for Applied Language and Culture Science), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: Introduction This paper deals with the captivity narrative and is intended to explain why captivity occurred, what impacts it had, and how captives reported about it. I am also going to outline how the captivity narrative influenced the attitude of white people towards Native Americans. Therefore, I am going to show in what way both capturers and captives are described. In order to show one captivity narrative in greater detail, I chose Mary Rowlandson's 'A True History of the Captivity & Restoration of Mary Rowlandson,' (1682) which is arguably the most famous captivity narrative. It set up a pattern, which was later adopted by many other authors. [...]